The Muskrat gi 
whole year to find muskrats abroad in daylight. 
With this fact in mind I set out to obtain some photo- 
graphs. 
My first step was to make a thorough search of the 
creeks and ponds for a thickly settled muskrat com- 
munity. The place seeming to promise the best 
results was the upper portion of a mill race having 
on one side pasture land, while the other side was a 
steep bank under which were several burrows. 
Near the water’s edge, at about the same point on 
the pasture side, I had observed muskrats several 
times during the afternoon. I began by putting sweet 
apples in certain places, thus rewarding the muskrats 
which ventured abroad in daylight, but I took care 
to remove all remaining apples before sundown. I 
kept up this baiting process for about two weeks, 
and at the end of that time several of the muskrats 
made quite regular excursions for the apples late in 
-the afternoon. From the pasture side of the mill 
race an old log extended from the bank over the water. 
I noticed a very large muskrat several times, after 
his frolic on shore, taking a reclining position on the 
log before he plunged into the water to swim to the 
opposite shore, where his burrow was located. After 
several attempts I succeeded in photographing the 
old fellow in this rather odd reclining position. 
